"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

Everyone's favorite scoundrel goes Solo! Han is given a top-secret undercover mission for the Rebellion: rescuing several informants and spies! His cover for the assignment? Only the biggest and most infamous starship race in the galaxy, the Dragon Void! A tournament he has dreamt of winning his entire life. With a chance of glory, can Han keep his mind on the mission? Or is fa...(展开全部)

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and ...(展开全部)

As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a r...(展开全部)

瞿同祖（1910－2008）归侨历史学家。长沙人。1936年毕业于燕京大学，获硕士学位。曾任云南大学历史系教授。1945年赴美国，任美国哥伦比亚大学、哈佛大学研究员。后去加拿大，任不列颠哥伦比亚大学教授。1965年回国，历任湖南省文史研究馆馆员、政协湖南省文史资料研究委员会副主任，中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员。1980年出席第二十七届欧洲汉学会议。1985年，以高级学者名义访问美国哈佛大学、芝加哥大学、华盛顿大学，阐述儒家思想与中国法律发展的关系。著有《中国封建社会》、《清代地方政府》、《汉代社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》等。